How to Avoid the Toilet Vortex of Anxiety | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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We also talk about: whether it is possible to be a failed meditator; grief versus mourning; and meditation tips for parents.
Sebene Selassie is a writer, teacher, and speaker who leads meditation, creativity, and nature-based practices for personal & collective liberation. Using ancient wisdom and modern science mixed with her own relational and relatable style, Sebene helps spiritually curious people explore the profound and sacred truth of belonging. She is trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, a practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma (IFOT), and is a licensed hiking guide in New York State. She has taught classes, workshops and retreats online and in person for almost fifteen years. Sebene is a devoted student of mystic traditions, including astrology, and writes the popular newsletter Ancestors to Elements. Her first book, You Belong: A Call for Connection, is published by HarperOne.
Jeff Warren is a meditation instructor and writer, known for his dynamic and accessible style of teaching. He is the co-author of The New York Times best-selling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, founder of the nonprofit Consciousness Explorers Club, and co-host of the Mind Bod Adventure Pod. Jeff's Do Nothing Project streams for free every Sunday night on YouTube; his guided meditations reach millions of people through the Ten Percent Happier and Calm apps, as well as through his Substack, Home Base.
Jeff’s mission is to empower people to care for their mental health, through the realistic, intelligent and sometimes irreverent exploration of meditation and personal growth practices. As someone with both ADHD and bipolar, he is big on destigmatizing mental health issues, and championing a neurodiverse outlook on life and practice.
Tascha Schumann is a Buddhist Lama, writer, visual artist, co-host of The Mind Bod Adventure Pod, and Juno-nominated recording artist whose work has been streamed many millions of times around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody how we doing we've got a great episode today these episodes are some of my |
| 0:31.8 | absolute favorites. |
| 0:33.0 | Today we're going to talk to two great meditation teachers, |
| 0:36.0 | Sabinee Salasi and Jeff Warren, |
| 0:38.0 | who are also very close friends, |
| 0:40.0 | about a number of issues, |
| 0:42.0 | including how to avoid the toilet vortex of anxiety |
| 0:44.8 | what to do when your meditation gets boring how to work with judgmentalism |
| 0:49.0 | toward yourself and other people how to be less reactive in a chaotic world, whether it's productive to have |
| 0:55.3 | goals for your meditation, meditation tips for parents, and much more. What you're |
| 1:00.8 | about to hear is a freewheeling collection of the best exchanges from a recent weekend-long retreat that Seb, Jeff, and I have started putting on recently. We call it meditation party. |
| 1:11.0 | We're actually doing another one in October at the |
| 1:13.1 | Omega Institute which is north of New York City. There's a link in the show |
| 1:16.9 | notes if you want to sign up. Anyway, these retreats emerged out of a desire to |
| 1:21.4 | make the practice of meditation less solitary, to emphasize a part of the |
| 1:26.2 | practice that is often de-emphasized in an age of individualism and tech-induced isolation, which is being with other people, community. |
| 1:35.9 | Even if you don't ever want to go to the event, which is totally fine, I get that actually, |
| 1:39.9 | I think it is highly possible to get a kind of contact high from hearing us interact |
| 1:45.1 | with one another and with the audience. Many of you know Sebb and Jeff but for |
| 1:49.7 | those of you |
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